Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] landlock.7: Document Landlock ABI v2 (file reparenting; Linux 5.19)

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Hello Alex!

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 01:31:22AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 3/5/23 11:24, Günther Noack wrote:
> > I feel that implementing the full generic "best effort" fallback logic
> > would complicate the example too much:
> >
> >  [...]
> 
> I prefer if examples assume latest and greatest kernel.
> 
> Examples of how to support old kernels would be good in complete
> tutorials, but over-complicate a short example.

Thank you for the review!

Fair enough, let's use the variant then where we just assume the
newest kernel -- that is the code which we already have right now, in
fact. I'll add a small remark to point out the place where people
might want to handle the backwards compatibility with older kernels.

–-Günther



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